Needle-threading device.



M. SONNENFBLD NEEDLE THREADING DEVICE. v APPLICATION FILED NOV. 28, 1910.

WITNESSES INVENTOR.

Patented Aug. 19, 1 913.-

ATTORNEY incision C UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

MAX SONNENFELD, OF ,NEW YORK, N. Y.

NEEDLE-THREAJJING DEVICE.

Specification of Letters Patent.- I

Patented Aug. 19, i913.

Application filed November 28, 1910. Serial No. 594,478.

Threading Devices, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to devices, for threading needles and has in. View simplicity of construction and ease of use, as will now be described, reference being had to the following specification and claim and the drawing on which Figure l is an elevation of the device; Fig. 2 is an elevation of the device with a thread hanging in the slot, ready to be passed through the eye of a needle; Fig. 3 shows the device with a thread attached and passed through the eye of a needle; Fig. 4 shows the thread inserted in the eye of a needle with the device detached.

In the drawing, there is shown a bar A, preferably of steel and small enough to be pushed through the eye of a needle, with room for the thread to be inserted. The

bar A has one end rounded or pointed, and the other end is attached to a handle D. Near the pointed end B, is an oblique slot or inclined toward the end or point B.

When the device is used, a thread E is first inserted in the slot C. This can readily be done by sliding the thread along the bar A. The thread is allowed to hang freely, as shown, while the bar A with the dependent thread is pushed through the eye H of a needle G, as shown in Fig. 3. On withdrawing the bar A, the thread E" is released from the slot or incision C and is held in place by friction in the form of a sizes for all kinds of needles from the finest sewing needle to the biggest drawing needle or other still lar'ger needles. It has the advantage that in use one hand is left free to hold the needle, While being threaded, and the other is left free to hold the device, the thread during the operation bein'g se curely held in place by gravity.

So easy is it to thread a needle by means of this device that it can be readily done by a blind person. When the device'is designed for needles of large size, the handle D may be dispensed with.

I am aware of a number of devices for threading needles, some of which bear some resemblance to this. None of these devices is here referred to specifically, because the difference between them and applicants do I MAX. soNNENFELo.

lVitnesses C. A. 0. 11051211,, E. O. DUFF.

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